At this point in the report, a table was placed: "Fulfillment of the production plan by individual sections in relation to the net and incomplete workers and fishermen in the fishing campaign of 1991."*

* In the table, the assignment according to the price indicated is 700 units, and the catch 253 units; Lenin calculated the percentage of the catch. Ed.

LENIN MISCELLANY

...the catch, at which the productivity of labor of the worker increases more than twofold in comparison with the productivity of the net and more than fivefold in comparison with the productivity of the fisherman's labor.

At the same time, the weir requires a considerably smaller number of workers.

Furthermore, the working conditions at the weir are considerably better than at the net. The drag or seine requires the worker to be halfway in the water, whereas at the weir the worker is all the time on boards, 1½ sazhens above the water. Therefore, bakhily become completely superfluous at the weir. It is true that the weir requires wood expenditure, but the expenditure of wood should be preferred to the expenditure of leather, the shortage of which forces a limitation on the number of nets. Of course, the weir, in the form in which it was constructed last spring, is not yet sufficiently improved for herring fishing, but the advantages of the weir enumerated above leave no doubt that it will become the most powerful and most productive fishing instrument in the delta...

[32] ...Therefore, in the main and fundamental aspect, fishing policy in the delta should remain unchanged: while supporting and restoring the individual economy of the fisherman, it is necessary to continue the unwavering development of fishing by means of state enterprise, expanding its scope and improving its technical equipment...

¹ The report was presented by I. P. Babkin.

² N. S. Angarsky was mobilized for work in Astrakhan by the Moscow organization.